57th Awards announced: Savoy Hotel, 20 November 2011
Best Night Out – Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre)
Best Actor – (Joint) Benedict Cumberbatch – Frankenstein (National’s Olivier) and Jonny Lee Miller – Frankenstein (National’s Olivier)
The Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress – Sheridan Smith – Flare Path (Theatre Royal Haymarket)
Best Play – (Joint) The Heretic By Richard Bean (Royal Court) and One Man, Two Guvnors By Richard Bean (National’s Lyttelton)
The Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical – Matilda The Musical (RSC Stratford and Cambridge Theatre)
Best Director – Mike Leigh, Grief (National’s Cottesloe)
Best Design – Adam Cork For his sound design of Anna Christie & King Lear (Donmar Warehouse)
The Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright – Penelope Skinner For The Village Bike (Royal Court)
The Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer – Kyle Soller For his performances in The Glass Menagerie (Young Vic) & Government Inspector (Young Vic) & The Faith Machine (Royal Court)
Editor’s Award – Michael Grandage for making the Donmar Warehouse a star
Beyond Theatre award – Pet Shop Boys and Javier de Frutos For The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler’s Wells)
The Lebedev Special Award – Kristin Scott Thomas For her contribution to theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre’s Golden Seagull – Tom Stoppard for his contribution to Russian theatre and the international stage